Universities race for unlikely student doctors
UNIVERSITIES have joined a frantic bidding exercise for 1,000 extra medical students with no guarantees that the students or funding will ever materialise. They are drawing up detailed proposals in...
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Applications edge towards last year's level
THE gap between applications for higher education places this year compared with last year has narrowed, with overall numbers now down by 2 per cent, and applications from under 21-year-olds up...
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Young Scots flock to higher education
THE percentage of young Scots going into higher education has soared in the past decade from 19 per cent in 1986-87 to 47 per cent in 1996-97, according to Scottish Office statistics. The figures...
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Colleges to bid for share of Pounds 90 million
FURTHER education colleges will net a major share of the extra Pounds 250 million earmarked for education in the budget. Colleges have been invited to bid for a share of the Pounds 90 million set...
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Senate backs v-c's stance on Mapplethorpe
The senate of the University of Central England has backed vice-chancellor Peter Knight's defiance of a police request to destroy a book, seized from the university library that is said to contravene...
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Gay staff face discrimination, says AUT
The employment rights of gay, lesbian and bisexual staff in universities and colleges are often neglected, despite the politically correct environment in which they work, the Association of...
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Students lobby Parliament for gay rights
Student campaigners this week hosted the first national lobby of Parliament for lesbian, gay and bisexual rights since the general election. The National Union of Students Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual...
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Government launches Foresight consultation
THE government this week launched a consultation on the structure and process of the next round of the Foresight programme due to start in April 1999. Foresight, launched in 1994, aims to identify...
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Court passes buck on geology rift
Glasgow University's court has backed off deciding the future of a department accused of conflict, factionalism and lack of leadership. The court last week received a review committee report on the...
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Unions issue pay threat
UNIVERSITIES face renewed industrial action unless employers improve their pay offer for next year, higher education unions have warned. Further talks were under way this week after the unions...
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OU senate makes history
STAFF at the Open University could win a major victory in the battle to improve employment rights for thousands of academics working on fixed-term contracts, writes Alan Thomson. Members of senate...
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Physics at UEA in danger
Less than a year after axing its physics degree, the University of East Anglia is proposing to shut its physics department, while the University of Essex is to stop taking physics undergraduates. A...
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Nightmare future for copyrights
The official representative for European libraries in Brussels warned this week that a draft European Commission directive on copyright could lead to a "nightmare future in which nothing can be...
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Oxford slips in world league for a fee
Oxford University's colleges will soon be no more than "glorified dormitories", Robert Stevens, master of Pembroke College, Oxford, told the Association of University Administrators in America this...
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Tinseltown and gown: Jan Pinkava
(Photograph) - Tinseltown and gown: Jan Pinkava, a University of Wales, Aberystwyth, graduate won an Academy Award Oscar for his short computer-animated film, Geri's Game. Dr Pinkava, who has a first...